The Sun. — London, England, 1864-08-15 00:00:00

CAL CITTTA AND CHINA MAIL, By the ( Jverland Mail we are in receipt of des spatches from Calcutta to July 8, Madras July 14, and Hong-Kong June 29. INDIA. The Englishman, in its general summary, states that— " One of the topics of general discussion since our last overland has been the newly-started project for building wharves, docks, &c., for Calcutta. The subject is of great interest to all who have to do with India, and a report of the engineers, Messrs. Brereton and Burdon, has been addressed to the provisional directors of the Calcutta Wet Dock and Wharf Company on the subject. The want of dock accommodation is patent to all in Calcutta. The necessity for the improvement of this port has been felt for more than 30 years, and for more than 30 years have merchants and chambers of commerce been pressing the question on the attention of the Government, and, though not rejected, have been allowed to fall into neglect as complete as if rejected. All who know anything of Calcutta will see at once the absurdity of the health' difficulty. There are far worse :collections of water about Calcutta than well kept docks are likely to be, the breeze blowin g from them at Chitpore would be no worse than that blowing from them at Kidderpore, and as Garden Beach is by far the most convenient place for their construction, we trust that the company will be strong to overrule such a bsurd objections, and pro ceed with their scheme as soo n as possibl e . "With regard to Bhootan the recent proceedings of Government tend to strengthen our previously impressed conviction that the viceroy will not allow the insults heaped upon the B r i t i s h envoy to pass unpunished. Active preparations have been going on in the arsenal, and we have been recently in. formed that Captain Lance, of the Bengal Staff corps, has been sent to the north-east frontier to _collect information regarding the Bengal Dooars, and the hill country on the left bank of the Teesta, to the west of Dalimkhote. His duty will, we be. lie e, be to acquire all the knowledge he can of the eormtry, the roads, the passes into Bhootan, and the sources from which supplies can be obtained, in the case of the Dooars being occupied, er an expedition sent into Ehootan. He has also been ordered to do all in his power to ascertain the temper of the dif. ferent classes of the population in the Bhootaa territc ry on the other side of the border, the view they are likely to take of British interference in the affairs of Bhootan, the quarters from which assist ance nay be expected, whether any of the Bhootan chiefs would side with the English Government in an endeavour to obtain a satisfactory settlement of _future relations between the two states, and what inducements might lead them to adopt this course. The same officer has been authorised to levy an auxiliary force in Cooch Behar. " Money continues very easy, and there appears no immediate reason for expecting any change. Exchange slightly improved on the arrival of the China steamers, but is reeeding again. Bank shares are not so much in request, but the share market generally is buoyant, particularly for tea companies. Produce now arrives freely, all the rivers being open, and it is taken up as fast as it comes, there h eing no heavy stocks of produce in the market. T he indigo prospects are poor, heavy and continued ra ins have dime much damage in Bengal ; dry we ether has kept back Tirhoot crops, and drought has nearly destroyed the Khoontee crops of Benares. But much was never expected from the north-west, in eor. sequence of the demand for land for cotton ; on the whole, there is every probability of the crop falling short of that of last year. The import market is very dull. The long•expected demand from the interior has not arrived, and it is difficult to account for this slowness. It is said that weavers have be gun to weave English yarn again; if so, twists will boon be in request; there is even now some slight movement in them. " In a former number we alluded to the sitting of a secret committee in England, appointed for the purpose of deciding whether it would be advisable to take over all the French possessions in India except Pondicherry and Karikal, and on what terms. We now hear that the French authorities here have demanded an enormous sum, rather more than three crores—for Chandernagore alone, stating that the sum realised by the sale of stamps exceeds the actual value of the land. The papers have been forwarded to the secret committee at home. We imagined that our Gallic friends would not place a low value on their possessions here, and especially Chand'rnagore, the revenue from which is compars tively very large. "A correspondent in Cabul informs us that some of the Sittana Hindustanee fanatics have applied to the Auteer of Cabul for service. The Ameer is said to have replied to them as follows How can you expect me to trust you when you have already be trayed and rebelled against your benefactors and masters whose salt and bread you ate ?' The men were at once ordered to leave Cabul, and it is re ported that some of them have been endeavouring to recross the Indus. " Letters from the Punjaub inform us that an asylum has been granted at Rawul Pindee to Sirdar Azim Khan, the fugitive brother of the Ameer, who, until matters are settled in Cabal, will be supported by the British Government; an instance of good policy towards these people which they may feel, if not appreciate." Frora Madras we learn that his Excellency the Governor left Madras on the 4th instant, accom panied by Lady Denison and his suite, en route to the Neilgherries, and safely reached his destination in due course. He will be absent, it is understood, for about three months, but will visit various parts of the country during that period. The directors of the Madras Bank have declared a dividend for the half-year ending 30th June of 75 rupees per shard, being at the rate of 15 per cent, per annum, or 3 per cent. in excess of the dividend for the previous half-year. CHINA AND JAPAN. Political matters remain pretty much in statu quo both in China and Japan. With regard to the former the China Mail an nounces that— The officer in command of her Majesty's forces has left his head-quarters in Hong-Kong and gone to Shanghae, probably to make arrangements for the protection of that port in the event of the rebels regaining their lost ground. There is not much likelihood of such a change taking place; but now that matters are out of our hands, it is only proper to 13e ready for any turn that the present civil con• tention may take. " The state of the rebellion is briefly this :—A considerable city named indifferently Woo-chow and 1100-chow, and situated to the south of the Tae hoo lake, is held by a large body of rebels, and is most strongly fortified by means of stockades. In addition to these the rebels have pitched a camp outside the walls, and, not confining themselves to the defensive, they make occasional sallies upon the besiegers, who have as yet been able to do no more than hold their own. The latter number, according to the latest accounts, scarcely 8,000, including a force of 1,600 disciplined troops under command of General D'Aiguebelle. The rebels have hitherto been able to keep their opponents at a distance of 20 miles from the city, but the country round about is so completely in the hands of the Imperialists that all supplies to the rebels are likely to be cut off : It is impossible to say how long this state of things may continue. Two chiefs are reported as having surrendered to the Imperialias. with 5 , 000 men, and to be engaged on the aide of the besiegers. This may only be a stratagem of war, for we hear that traitors are suspected of being at work in the I m peril army. "Of the 'flu-Pings Who were dispersed we have heard nothing beyond a rumour, which has never been corroborated, to the effect that they had ap, peared in marauding bands somewhere in the north of the Canton province, „ Bes id es Woo-chow, Nankin alone is held by the rebels, and is &cm:3ly invested by a large army under Tseng Kwofan. Some eneeemes are reported as havin g b een ;t ined by the Imperialist s on the north side of th e city, but few people aequainted with Chinese warfare will be Sanguine of immediate or decided euecess by the besieging army. The bet that K. 72 .N n fe opposed to the idea of being assisted by Europeans is probably significant of a desire to prolong matters. On the whole, however, there are no good reasons for supposing that the rebellion will not eventually be crushed, although there is room to fear that the troubles connected with it are far from being at an end. It was rumoured in Shanghae lately that Burgevine and others, taking advantage of Colonel Gordon's retirements from the field, had proceeded to Nan• kin with the view of again the rebels, This rumour has since been contradicted, but whether the original statement or the subsequent contradic tion is correct it is impossible to say. Shanghae is a hotbed of intrigue with regard to the rebellion, owing to the fact that property there rises or falls according to the current events in connection with the insurrection. Colonel Gordon is in Shanghae, but nothing transpires as to his intentions ; most likely he awaits the arrival of General Brown before taking any steps in the way of further assisting the Impe rialists. " With regard to Japan we are not likely to hear of any change in our relations for some little time to come. The matter at present pending is the opening of the Inland Sea, which has been closed for some time by the Prince of Nagato, who caused the shipping to be molested in passing through the Straits of Shimonoseki. The 20th Regiment is on its way to Japan, and the Conqueror has reached Yokoama with a battalion of marines. Nothing has transpired as to the course that Sir R. Alcock will adopt, further than that he is determined to reopen the Inland Sea to foreign vessels. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE, TAFF VALE. The directors of this company have decided on declaring a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum for the half year ended the 30th of Jane last. The dividend for the corresponding half year of 1863 was at the rate of 9 per cent. per annum. GREAT NORTHERN. The directors of this company state in their re port that the capital account stands as follows ; Received to the 30th of June, £13,144,236, and ex pended X 12,897,913, leaving a balance of £246,323. The total expenditure on capital account during the half-year was £168,590, of which £31,120 had been paid for land and £46,145 for works, corn. prising of the King's-cross goods and eoal stations, the widening of the line and additional sidings at and near London, and sundry works necessary to accommodate the traffic at ♦arious other points. The subscriptions to other undertakings connected with the company amounted to £76,200. Twenty new engines and 500 waggons suitable for the car riage of goods and coal had been contracted for to meet the requirements of the traffic. The new ordinary stock was allotted to the proprietors, and £782,990 stock out of a total of £837,040 was duly taken up, including the premiums and calls paid in advance£43B,762 had been received thereon. The gross receipts for the past half-year amounted to £833,814, the gross expenditure to £441,453, leaving a balance of £392,361. To this was added £213, from the preceding half-year and £8,400 due from the Eastern Counties Railway Company, making £400,974, against £328,679 for the corre sponding half of 1863, showing an increase of £72,295. The fixed charges, including interest on loans and preference shares, amounted to £266,253, leaving a net balance available for ordinary divi dends of £134,721 against £102,599 for the corre sponding half-year of 1863, showing an increase of £32,122. The balance of £134,721 would enable the proprietors to declare a dividend on original stack at the rate of 52 per cent, per annum. In the corre sponding half of 1863 the dividend was at the rate of 4i per cent. per annum, For the half-year the proprietors would receive £2 15s per cent. on the original stock, £3 per cent. on the B stock, and £2 10s. per cent. on the A stock, and 17s. 9d. per cent. would be paid on the first instalment of the new ordinary stock, being the proportion of dividend due thereon from the 2d of May last, leaving a balance of £1,421 for the next account. LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER. A special general meeting of this company was held on Friday at the Grosvenor Ilotol, Victoria Station, Pimlico; Lord Sondes in the chair, Mr Johnson, the secretary, read the notice convening the meeting, which was held for the purpose of raising various sums of money authorised by Parliament in the session of 186-1. The CHATIOLIN proposed the first resolution, authorising the raising for the City lines of £1,000,000, is 50,000 shares of £2O each, which were to be divided into half preferred and half deferred shares. Lord ll.lnnt s seconded the motion. Mr HEDGCOCIE said he was sorry they had to raise more capital, and wished to know whether any and what amount of Lloyd's bonds had been issued. Mr HOLROYD, a director, said the new capital proposed to be raised would considerably more than pay off all the Lloyd's bonds issued, every one of which they would take up when they got the capital. In reply to further questions, he stated that at the time a great opposition was raised against crossing Ludgate-hill the purchasing powers of the Act of 1860 were nearly expired, and, therefore, in order to preserve them, they had to pay down £500,000 on behalf of the company for the purchase of the land and houses re quired for the railway. The powers would have lapsed if they had not raised the necessary funds on Lloyd's bonds. They would have a large traffic from the Great Northern and Midland over the line from Earl street to the Metro politan Railway, and also from it north and south over the London, Chatham, and Dover railways. Mr V. KNIGHT complained of the power of directors to issue Lloyd's bonds without the assent of the shareholders. He held £16,000 in the railway, and did not know whether any of the new stock might not rank before his. Mr HoutoYD assured him that the capital for the city lines was-quite distinct from that of the Metropolitan Ex tension. After some observations from Mr P. Carter and Mr Surgey, the motion was carried by 32 against 8. The next resolution authorising the directors to borrow on mortgage £333,300 on the rates and tolls of the city lines was carried by 34 against 2. The third resolution was to authorise the company to create and issue 60,000 shares of £25, making £1,600,000 of ordinary stock to rank with the £700,000 ordinary stock of the main lino from Bickley to Dover. A long discussion on this point ensued, in the course of which Mr Forbe N , the general manager, explained that the present traffic, if the line could be worked at 50 per cent, of the receipts, averaged sufficient this year to cover all prefer ence charges down to the Dover preference. As the other lines were opened the traffic would still further increase, so as in the course of a certain time to cover everything. They were now receiving above £B,OOO a week on that line. Sir C. RONEY said it was considered the best course to raise money as proposed on ordinary shares, as the present proportion of ordinary stock was too small as compared with the amount of preference stocks. It was explained that the holders of £BOO,OOO third pre ference shares entitled to 6 per cent. had agreed to accept £BOO,OOO in ordinary stock for them, and to surrender the third preference shares for the benefit of the ordinary shares, by which a claim of £lB,OOO a year, being 6 per cent. on £300,000, would be given up in favour of the ordinary stock, being equal to lf per cent. per annum on the ordinary stock, and thus increasing its value. , . Alter considerable opposition the motion was carried, as was also one authorising the directors to borrow on deben tures £.50Q000, when the new capital was subscribed, and one-half thereof paid up. A resolution authorising the surrender and exchange of £BOO,OOO, third preference shares, for the same amount of ordinary stock. The sum of £220,000 was authorised to be raised for the Metropolitan (Eastern section), in shares of £2O each, to be divided into preferred half shares and deferred half shares, and entitled to dividends not exceeding 6 per cent. Sir M. PBTO said he believed the resolutions, when carried out, would be very beneficial to the company, They would have a very large traffic from the Great Northern and Mid land over the company's lines. The traffic on their line was increasing in a wonderful manner, on one mile of line alone to Blackfriars-bridge they received £ 1,200 a week on the city lines from Earl.street to the Metropolitan railway they could charge a two-mile toll, ne considered that the ordi nary stock was worth 40 in consequence of the surrender of the third preferen:.•o shares. The directors were then authorised to borrow on deben tures £73,300 ,for the Metropolitan (Eastern section), and the proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. HULL AND SELBY. The half-yearly meeting of this company Was held at ell on Friday, 11r J. R. Pease in the ch:ar. Tho report stated that there was a balance of £33,830 in favour of the company, The directors recommended that a dividend be declared of £2 Os 6d per whole or £5O share, and in proportion thereto for the half and quarter shares (subje. - A in each case to the deduction of income tax re tained by the lessees), payable on and after Monday, the 20th inst. The seal of the cornpny having been nfEz.ed to the re- THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15, 1864. gister of proprietors, resolutions to the above effect were carried, and the meeting separated. WEST YORKSHIRE. The report of the directors stated that the expenditure to the 30th of June last, exclusive of the hlethley Railway, had beenX3Bo,77B. The receipts for the half-year on revenue account had been £14,438, the working expenses £3,570, leaving a net sum of £10,868 applicable for dividend. The total sum at the disposal of the directors was £20,653, out of which they proposed to divide £10,148, leaving £10,505 for the reserve fund. The directors referred with satisfaction to the steady increase of the general traffic, and stated that the opening of new lines shortly would cause a considerable augmentation of income. The completion of the Batley and Methley branches was an event not far distant, STATE OF TRADE. LEEDS, Friday.—We have to report a quiet trade in the warehouses during the past week. Few buyers have been in the market one or two of the wholesale London houses have been represented; with this exception there has been comparatively little doing. Fine black unions have been the chief things inquired for, and although these goods have not been in such great request as of late, still the supply is not yet equal to the demand, the falling off of which will enable the manufacturers to satisfy the wants of the merchants better than they have been able to do for some time past. Low-priced unions have not been much inquired for, and as many manufacturers have been engaged in making this class of goods, the stocks in their hands are now accumulating. Witneys and pilots, in plain and fancy makes, and black all-wool cloths have to a fair extent changed hands. Manufacturers are fully employed, and rates firmly upheld in all de partments. The increased value of money and the apprehension of higher rates save checked the de. mend for English wool, and little has been done during the week. Many manufacturers are well supplied at present. Clothing wool is in moderate request, and for some sorts at the public sales prices have not been fully maintained: MANCHESTER, Friday.-012 Tuesday, and still more on Wednesday, the general feeling was one of great depression, and on all sides business was re ported to be at a stand. But there ensued rather more ease in money circles, and the apprehended further addition to the rate of interest did not take piece yesterday. A sense of relief has consequently spread over this market, and we have been receiv ing more cheerful reports from both sellers and buyers, especially in the latter part of to-day. Yarn —A limited business has Leen effected by German merchants in 60's to 80's twofolds, and some singles also, including 28's to 32's, and as low as 12's water, principally on Russian account, and all at full prices. Something has been done, too, in 50's to 100's mule, but not in 40's, for Calcutta, and in 30's mock water for Bombay. We hear of no transactions for the Levant, unless a little extra hard may have been in tended for that quarter. Manufacturers have ven tured upon cautious and sparing purchases of twist and weft cope and throstl© warps. They have, however, scarcely touched 32's twist cops, but they have taken higher numbers, especially of wefts. As regards prices, we may state that, a couple of days back, buyers might have found a weakness among the spinners of short staples, except certain superior articles, which they did not meet with to-day. Naval and Military Intelligence, The Board of Admiralty, consisting of tho Duke of Somer set, K.G., Vice -Admiral the Hon. Sir Fred. Grey, K.C.8., Rear-Admiral the Hon, J, R. Drummoad, C. 8., and Mr Childers, M.P., the Civil Lord, with their secretary, Lord C. Paget, M.P., disembarked on Friday morning from the Admiralty yacht, at 11 o'clock, at the Royal William Vie. tualling-yard, Plymouth, Their lordships were attended by the Controller of Victualling, Mr Charles Richards, the Director of Works, Capt. Clarke, ILE., and Sir R. Mayne, K.C.8., Chief Commissioner--and Mr Mallalieu, Inspect ing-Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police. The Com mander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir 11. Fremantle, K.C.8., ar rived immediately afterwards. Their lordships were received by Captain Superintendent Douglas Curry, R.N„ Com mander Wheeler, the Master-Attendant—Mr Samuel Tris cott, storekeeper—and Mr Thos. Ingram, clerk of works, &u. After inspecting the slaughterhouse and bakery their lordships proceeded to the office of the Capt, Superinten tendent, where they formed a board, and deliberated nearly an hour on some affairs connected with the department, They inspected the store in which the officers' mess traps are deposited. Quitting the establishment by water they proceeded to the Royal Naval Hospital, through the wards of which they were conducted by the principal medical offi cers. The rooms being erected for the recreation of conva lescent patients were also examined. Having lunched on board the Osborne their lordships proceeded to Torpoint and reviewed the men belonging to the gunnery ship Cam. bridge. They were divided into six companies, under com mand of Capt, C. J. F. Ewart, and Lieuts. H. F. Nichol son, Clayton Mitchell, and Cecil Stanley, and deployed into line, broke into open column, formed squares, in a very creditable manner. From four field-pieces on the ground a salute of 19 guns was fired. The band of the Royal Adelaide was in attendance. At about five p.m., their lordships went on board tho training ship Itnpreg nable, 78, Capt. Frmicis S. Tremlett, in Hamoaze, and inspected the boys at general quarters and gunnery and small-arm drill, as well as sail drill, and examined the register books showing their progress in school. Since the last Admiralty inspection 600 boys have been trained ; the Impregnable, with the Implacable, St Vincent, Bos cawen, and Wellesley, sends about 3,000 lads annually into ships as they are commissioned, and to vacancies on foreign stations. All boys of 16 capable of passing the examination are rated first class. The sailing brig Squirrel takes them occasionally from Devonport into the Channel for sea exer cise. After short visits to the training ship Impregnable, and the flagship Royal Adelaide, Capt. F. B. P. Seymour, C. 8., the Duke of Somerset and his colleagues landed on Mount Edgcumbe-park. In the evening they dined at Mount Wise with the Port Admiral, and they subsequently were present at the ball under their patronage at Pearse's Royal Hotel, Plymouth, in aid of the funds of the Orphan Asylum. On Friday Earl de Grey and Ripon left Devonport in the steam tender Princess Alice, and inspected Tregantle and Scerasdon forts in Cornwall, and the land defences in Caw sand Bay, at Bovisand, and on Staddon Heights. In the afternoon Admiral Drummond and Mr Childers visited Tregantle, On Saturday morning at 10 o'clock the Lords of the Ad miralty reviewed the men belonging to the Steam Reserve, who are commanded by Capt. Wm. Edmondetone, C. 8., of tho Indus. The inspection took place on the jetty at Key ham steatriyard, and their lordships seemed pleased wills the appearance of the force and the arrangements for its government. At half-past 10 the Duke of Somerset held a levee at the office of the Admiral Superintendent, while some of his colleagues went on board the new screw steam ship Megaira, G, in Ne. 2 dock, fitting for a store transport, and training ship Implacable, 24, Commander Samuel B. Dolling, in Hanioaze. Shortly after 2 o'clock the Duke of Somerset, Admiral Sir F, Grey, Admirals Eden and Drummond, Mr Childers, M.P., and Lord Clarence Paget, inspected the Plymouth division of Royal Marines Light Infantry in the Barrack -square. The division presented arms, and the companies were marched past in slow and quick time. There were under arms 1,061 of all ranks; the present strength is about 1,800, for which number the bar racks since their enlargement have sufficient beds. In 1860 there were but 919 beds. The area of the parade, 369 by 133 feet, will soon be enlarged to 432 by 204 feet, iu conse quence of the purchase by the Admiralty of all the eastern side of Durnford-street contiguous to the barracks. To-morrow the Lords of the Admiralty will reach Ports mouth, in their steam yacht Enchantress, from Devonport. The Duke of Somerset will hold a levee at the Royal Naval College in Portsmouth Dockyard on Friday next. Naval officers intending to be present must leave their names as early as they can possibly do so at the college. The usual official dinner will be given by their lordships during their stay at Portsmouth, on board their yacht ; the Port Ad miral and Naval Commander-in-Chief, Vice - Admiral Sir M. Seymour, G.C.13„ will entertain their lordships and a large party at the Admiralty-house in the dockyard, and their lordships will patronize the usual ball given each year for the benefit of the Seamen and Marines Orphan Schools at Portsmouth. A naval cou r t martial assemble d o n board h er M a j esty ' s board her M a i serv i n g as third lieutenant on ship Victory at P or t smout h on Saturday for the trial o f Lieut. Henry C. Wogan, of drunke nness. The prisoner p l ea d e d gu il ty, and was esty's sc r ew troopship Orontes, on a charge sentenced to dismissal from the Orontes and to lose four years' seniority. The experimental signaling between her Majesty's steamer Pigmy in the Channel, St. Catherine's Down, in the Isle of Wight, and the Semaphore tower in Ports mouth Dockyard, conducted by Capt. F. Bolton, of the 12th Regiment, and Commander Colomb, R.N., has been resumed, and will be continued during the visit of the Board of Admiralty to Portsmouth. On Thurs day last at 10 p.m. Vice-Admiral Sir M. Seymour received a message at his residence in the dockyard from the Pigmy in the Channel to the following effect ;—" Pigmy at sea, 15 miles off St. Catherine's. Heavy sea running. Has the Admiral any commands ?" The experiments have been attended with the most complete success. A perfect and rapid system of signaling will be established for the conjoint use of the army and navy, which will be of great impor tance in our system of national defence. The Fiagard, flagship of Commodore Dunlop, C,8,, at Woolwich, now undergoing a thorough overhaul at her moorings, has been found overrun in many of her timbers with a species of rot and decay, which it is stated will inca pacitate her for any lengthened service, and render useless any attempt at repair so as to fit her for the practice of the heavy guns daily in use for training lads. The masts are likewise rotten and unfit for service. The old frigate, after being withdrawn from the list of her Majesty's line-of battle ships soon after 1810, was taken up for her present duty, and has been moored off Woolwich dockyard in yearly commission since that period. Her accommodation is con sidered too scanty for present emergencies, and it is conse quently proposed to replace her by a ship of larger capacity. Captain Blakely's 11-inch cast iron gun, hoopad with steel, and which broke one of the hoops under proof a s h or t lime o l a w gioc, hbut thaving on Saturday. b eeanrr eday. pair e d was again p rove d a t th e Woolwich T , h e gun is 15 feet lon g , 43 inches in diameter at the breech, and 20 inches at the muzzle. The gun was fired two rounds, with a charge of 5211 b. of powder, and a cylinder weighing 5401 b., and showed no signs of strain or damage. Major Freeth, lt.A., Inspector of Ordnance, Captain Gordon, C. 8., Superinten dent of Military Stores, and other officers mere present, and conducted the proof, and also Mr. Campbell, represent ing the Blakely Ordnance Company. The gun, it is stated is manufactured to the order of the British Government, and will now be despatched to St. Petersburg, Lieut.-Gen. the Hon. Sir. J. York Scarlett, the Adjutant- General, and Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Airey, Quartermaster-General, have left the Horse Guards for a few weeks' leave Of absence from their offical duties. The Himalaya, screw troopship, Capt. E. Lacy, sailed from Portsmouth, on Saturday, for Kingstown with the 53d Regiment on board, under the command of Col. Ha rence. The 53d will disembark from the Himalaya at Kings town, en route for the Curragh. She proceeds to Canada from Kingston with detachments belonging to different regi ments serving in Canada, and will return to Portsmouth with two-thirds of the Guards now serving there. The Urgent, screw troopship, Capt. S. Henderson, will embark at Portsmouth on Tuesday draughts of men to join the service cpropanies of their respective regiments in Ca nada, and will return to Spithead from Quebec with one third of the Guards now serving in Canada. in consequence of the harness issued to the troops on lb reign service in numerous cases having been found unfit for use on its arrival, a committee of officers, appointed by the War Department, has been ordered to make an official sur vey of the stores at Woolwich and report on them. The officers, consisting of Lieut.-Col. Austen, commanding the 2d division depot brigade, R.A.—Brigade Major Sherring ton, Military Train—Capt. Fenn, superintendent of the harness depot—and Mr Parkyn, assist.-superintendent of military stores at Woolwich, made the required survey on Saturd.::, last. Various portions of the stores of harness and saddlery were selected by the committee, and subjected to a heavy strain under the hydraulic machinery. Those portions only which bore the test well returned to store, Capt. Andrew Clarke, R.E,, is appointed by the Duke of Somerset, Director of Engineering and Architectural Worke, in the place of Col. Godfrey T. Greene, whose resignation of that office we announced a few days ago. The following appointments have been made at the Ad miralty :—Commander P. W. Pellew, to tho Warrior— Lieut. G. Morice, to command the Hardy, vice Campbell, superseded—and J, E. Bearcroft, nominated to a naval ca detship. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, THE " SPECTATOR" ON THE O'CONNELL DEMON STRATION.—There is to our minds something almost impressive in the accounts of the Dublin procession in honour of O'Connell. Englishmen always turn with a sensation of disgust from accounts of Irish ceremonial, and very often they are as righa as they are discourteous. Incompleteness is the character.. istic of the Celt as completeness is of the Saxon, and the mixture of tawdriness and squalor, bright colour and wretched rags, magnates in uniform and paupers in frieze, brilliant eloquence and rubbishy declamation which make up an Irish demonstration, will never be tolerable to a people who least of all nations understand the Orientalism with which the true Milesian is so deeply tinged. On this occasion, however, the imagination, which in Ireland as in Asia so often does duty for the heart, was honestly touched, the people gave themselves up to their own ideas, and every incident was marked by a genius utterly alien indeed from our own, perhaps inferior in type, certainly inferior in results, but none the less real and worthy of respect. The middle class Englishman who despises it despises also the poet who can only sing songs which stir millions for generations, but who has no capacity for making a fortune or even perhaps earning his daily bread. The banners were we dare say tawdry enough, Irishmen are pretty sure to concentrate themselves on the device and leave the streamers ragged, just as Englishmen are sure to have their silk all perfect and their devices grotesque; but imagine an English crowd adhering in that way to a central idea, and that idea a memory of the past In the long pro cession which took two hours in passing each point, and must have numbered therefore two huadred thousand persons, thousands of disconnected minds had been at work, yet there was not a device, or a banner, or a scarf which did not strive to recall a lost nationality. Always that green colour, always that sad Hibernia—the figure which runs through all Irish sculpture, and poetry, and caricature, as if the very soul of the wittiest race in Europe had been steeped in melancholy—always the harp, and the crown, and the emblems telling of a time which never existed, but which lives in the popular ima gination as if h had but just passed away. The symbols were present on the trades' banners, on the flags of the societies, es en on the grotesque ensign the Adam and Eve with which the Dublin tailors, by a bull only Irishmen could have devised, indi cate their trade. Imagine an appeal to the tradi tions of Essex or Suffolk ploughmen or artisans ! Only in Ireland of the three kingdoms would a procession so full of symbols have been appreciated, only in Ireland could that strange air of sad memory have been thrown over a great popular demonstra. Lion, only in Ireland would men have found men cures to march to flke " Let Erin remember the days of old." It is all very unpractical, and visionary, and disheartening to men who think that life ought to be a struggle instead of a regret, 'out if it had occurred any where else, in Switzerland or Italy,EngliOimen would have recognised that there was poetry in the scene, quick sympathy, warm imagination, capacity for realising abstract ideas among the people who devised it. Those qualities arc not so useful perhaps as calmness, and judg ment, and industry, but after all Attica is an ideal as well as Manchester. The object of English Libe rals should be to give the Irish free scope for the qualities they do possess, to use the great addition they make to the intellectual resources of the Em pire, not to exclaim hopelessly that such qualities are naught only because they are not their own. The hearty conciliation of Ireland, the absorption of the island into the Empire as Scotland has been absorbed, the creation of a unity so cordial that there should be but one Britain, north, west, and south, would be worth all our conquests, and it can never be achieved, never be hoped for, till Eng lishmen understand not this or that Irish demon- stration, but the nature which makes such demon strations possible. The expectation which now re tards all liberal action for Ireland, that of the emptying and re-peopliug of the island, is we believe mere delusion. We cannot forget that we once re duced her native population to less than a million and a half only . to see it advan ce aga i n unchanged and unchangeable. Even if it wore not, if it were coriceiveable that Ireland should one day be filled up withSeotchmenove should h ave ga i ne d i n temporary political ease, only to lose infiaitely in all that variety which makes up political strength. On the object of the demonstration English opinions will of nourse differ very widely. O'Connell has, how ever, now been dead long enough for a fair estimate to be formed of his merits and his life, and English men are after their wont sloNvly beginning to shed bit by bit their old opinion of his career. Unscru pulous he certainly was, for the Orientalism of his countrymen, the inability to perceive as well as to sp!ak the exact truth, from which the Saxon is, often from sheer dulness, unable to depart, was of course most conspicuous in their representative man. Agitator he certainly was, but it hardly lies in the mouth of the men who carried the Reform Bill and the repeal of the corn laws to pronounce agitation in a good cause a crime. Hostile to the empire he certainly was, but;he was a Roman Catholic man of genius bred under the old penal laws, and we who believe that the French Opposition have a right not only of agitation but of revolt for freedom, cannot honestly condemn the man who hated a power which placed every native Irishman under disabili ties, which barred up every career, doomed every man with ambition to insignificance, refused even the one right Napoleon concedes--a right to a voice in deciding the amount of property to be eurren. dereu to the State. O'Connell faced us fairly, by action carefully restrained within the limits of the law carried a legislative measure by a use of the right of meeting granted to every opponent of the corn laws, by an organisation not so dangerous as that which in 1831 made of every open space in Birmingham a nightly drilling ground. Possessed of almost royal authority over six millions of his countrymen, taunted and assailed every week by the dominant two millions, refused a voice in Par liament, refused the career open to every Irishman who happened also to be a Protestant, he carried Catholic Emancipation without revolt and without bloodshed, and in so doing added all the potentiali ties of usefulness existing in six million brains to the Imperial strength. It was a grand service done to England as well as Ireland, a heavy crime removed from the conscience not of Ireland but Great Britain and if we have not the self-restraint to perceive the truth, so much the more credit to the Irish that after the man who secured them justice has been absent 17 years they can still meet by scores of thousands to keep his memory green. Wu English are not playing that, never shall play that part, towards the trainer of our Emancipation Act—the Reform Bill of 1831. No reasonable Englishman now doubts that emancipation was an act of justice, and for a nation to r e pay the m an who secured that justice with gratitude, even with exaggerated gratitude. is surely no sign of want of national heart. Do we blame Neapolitans because they almost canonise Garibaldi? and why is not kindliness as fair to our poor countrymen of the West—for the Irish are countrymen just as much as the Scotch—as to the race equally Southern, equally Catholic, equally Oriental, who prepare similar demonstrations in Southern Italy ? We appreciate the podesta who heads a procession in honour of Garibaldi, why sneer at MacSwiney, because he similarly honours a man who did for his people as much, and who can, vyiney make to himself no return ? Is it because :llaeS sounds to Jones and Smith and Higgs a c omically , common-place name P With the latter part_ of O'Connell's life have of course, LO flytupai,,hy. Repeal is not an act of justice but only a mischiev ous delusion, an effort to degrade Ireland from a component and equal part of a great empire either into the mere dependency she was till Castlereagh terminated her humiliation, or a poverty-stricken and powerless republic. Whilst her rights are pre served, while her share of representation is equal and her sons promoted indifferently with Scotch men and Englishmen, while one Irishman can be Premier and another Viceroy of India, Ireland has no more right of revolt than Wales, or Cornwall, or Lincolnshire, and the right of every nation to exist would justify any measure of repression. But it is just a little odd that the men who so savagely cen. sure O'Connell for advising Repeal by moral force are those who justify Mr. Davis in securing Re peal by arms. Is slavery the higher law which hallows every act undertaken in its defence. O'Con nell distinctly believed that the divergence between the two islands, the difference of race, creed, and aspirations, of history and of sympathies, of manners and of necessities, rendered a genuine unity hope less, and he drew the corollary that for the weaker party separation was the alternative. That separa tion he strove to secure morally, by the machinery which, it having already secured emancipation, he looked upon as irresistible. He was, we believe, utterly in the wrong, wrong in his avowed object, which was independence, wrong in his secret object, which was, we fear, union with France, wrong in his choice of machinery, most wrong of all in be lieving that it was possible for an English Ministry to consent to his plans. But Ireland, which suffers from all the differences he so keenly perceived, from that haughty want of appreciation we display towards all whom we do not eomprehend, may well be forgiven for honouring the man who suggested an unwise course out of abounding love for her, who holding in the Imperial Legislature the balance of power was willing to sacrifice a position such as no Irish Catholic ever attained in order to secure, as he thought, the future of the people who believed that having secured them justice he could win for them Utopia. He failed, as he deserved in such a cause to fail, but to our minds the fact most creditable to the people of Ireland in all this demonstration is that O'Connell having once manifestly, egregiously, ridiculously failed, they have forgotten the grievous failure to remember only the grand success. When we are as sympathetic to our great men, place Cromwell by the side of Elizabeth, the man who won the Reform Bill by the side of the man who won Waterloo, we shall have earned a new claim to the admiration of the world. And when we do we doubt not we shall feel the American sneer at our admiration for such doubtful excellence, as Irishmen feel now our sneers at their appreciation of O'Con nell. THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON THE LAST EVENTS OF THE WAR IN AMERICA.—The military move ments in America has never been more interesting than at the present moment. The most important of the operations is the siege of Atlanta. It is sup posed that Johnston thought it prudent to abandon the town, and that the appointment of Hood to the chief command represented the resolution of the Confederate Government to risk a battle for the • maintenance of the position. The whole progress of the campaign proves the great superiority of the Federal force, and Sherman appears to have pro fited by his advantages with remarkable skill and daring. For more than a hundred miles, he turned every defensive position which impeded his ad vance, and he reached the outskirts of Atlanta without having been forced to engage in a single pitched pattle. As the Confederates were, as usual, weak in cavalry, the Northern horse passed with impunity southward, and in a wide circuit through Georgia and Alabama they destroyed railroads and property, and temporarily interrupted the com munication between Atlanta anu Montgomery. In the meantime, General Sherman, after crossing the Chattahooehie, approached the suburbs of Atlanta, when he was attacked by Hood with the usual vigour of the Confederate leaders, and for a time was exposed to considerable danger. Two days afterwards a general engagement ended with re sults which are for the present doubtful, as both parties claim the victory. As Sherman's official despatches have been withheld from publication, there would be sufficient reason to trust in the Confederate account, if it were not also stated that Atlanta was undergoing bombardment, and that a part of the town was already in flames. The capture of the place would complete the triumph of the Federal arms in the West, and Atlanta, like Chattanooga, might in its turn become the base of a new advance through the yet unconquered regions of the Confederacy. On the other hand, a check in flicted on Sherman might involve dangerous conse quences, as the outlying forces of Wheeler and of Forrest are at last moving towards the Federal rear, end it is stated that the Confederates have taken a Federal camp at Decatur. The American habit of repeating popular names of places causes frequent confusion, and the friends of the North endeavour to persuade themselves that General Hardee's enterprise has been directed against Decatur in Alabama. It is, however, far more probable that the Confederates are endeavour ing to cut the enemy's communications at Decatur in Georgia than that they are gratuitously fighting in the heart of their own country with an enemy who is not known to have found his way to the south of Atlanta. If Longstreet's corps has really been detached from Virginia to Georgia, the Federal superiority of force may perhaps be reversed. The knowledge that such a movement had taken place would account for Grant's renewed activity, though it is difficult to conjecture his reasons for his recent change of position. His Northern admirers for some weeks asserted,with vociferous unanimity that the Lieut.-General would starve Richmond into surrender by operating with his left on the pivot of his position before Petersburg. But he found it ne cessary or convenient to move on his right, and to place his troops on both aides of the James River, in the neighbourhood of Fort Darling, which is on I the right bank, and within ten miles from Rich mond. It would seem that the task of Lee and Beauregard must have been greatly simplified by the change. From later accounts it appears that Grant must have afterwards returned, with at least a portion of his force, to his former position before Petersburg; for he is stated to have successfully assaulted a line of Confederate entrenchments at that place, though the ultimate result of the en gagement, which was still pending, is not yet known. It may possibly still his intention to make his main attack on Richmond from the south, but such a course would be by no means free from risk. Fort Darling repelled M'Clellan's gunboats in 1862 with little difficulty, and the river above is defended by the Confederate rams. If Grant attempts . to cut the Danville railway in the immediate neigh bourhood of Richmond he will expose his flank and rear to the attacks of the garrison of Peters burg. The direct line of advance on the left bank of James River, by Malvern and White Oak Swamp, has already been considered and disapproved. Even the correspondents and writers of the New York papers will scarcely pledge themselves to a ninth or tenth plan of campaign, after adopting all Grant's previous combinations with enthusiastic ap proval. There is no reason to suppose that the de fences of Richmond have been neglected in the direction of Malvern or Fort Darling ; but it is not impossible that the garrison may have been largely reduced by detachments to Northern Vir ginia, and perhaps to Georgia. If General Lee felt himself safe in his fortifications at Richmond, he might be glad to economise his stores by movements which at the same time promised considerable mili tary advantage. TILE" EXAMINER" ON THE HEALTH OF WATER. ING PLACES.—Some of the watering places are very much displeased, and not without reason, at the figure they make in the Registrars General's tables of mortality. And necessarily there is fallacy in these accounts, for it is impossible to distinguish the deaths of visitors from the deaths of residents ; and the former swell the death-rate in some in stances very considerably, and at the same time unduly as regards the question of salubrity. We will take two extreme examples, Brighton and Bath, which have the high death-rate of twenty in the thousand. To compare that death-rate with the death-rate of a rural district would be like compar ing the death-rate of a hospital with that of a pro portionate number of private houses, Brighton is the great sea-side hospital of London. The ailing and convalescent go to Brighton to get health and strength, and the incurable go there for their last chance, and to die. It is probably becahse the place is so healthy that its death-rate is raised so high by the mortality of its invalid visitors. It is impossible to traverse the cliffs without seeing both the health the air will give, and the stages of diseases and decay which are past cure. Brighton is, indeed, the incurable patient's forlorn hope. The death-rate, which is swelled by this class, must not be taken as the criterion of the ge neral sanitary condition ; and the same remark applies to three other places which have the same high rate, probably from the same cause—Ton bridge Wells, Buxton, and Malvern, all haunts of invalids. Bath is another example, but not quite of the same class. It is the refuge of the aged, and balks death of many who have long p a ssed the all'• pointed threescore and ten . D ry d en says of his good parson— Of sixty years he see me d and well might las t To sixty more, hut th a t he lived too fast. A description which must not be understood in the present sense of the phrase, as the model pastor 4( mad e almost a sin of abstinence," and lived too fast in speedin g t o h eaven . Neither this sort of excess, nor any other, is to be seen in the folks who well might last to a hundred in Bxtll; but we be lieve that temp era t e goo d living contributes much to the extraordinary longevity of the place, and uwhtre is marketing bitter and cheaper. But the inevitable hour: must strike sooner 7 deat the city of the aged has a correspondir4, of averasde And here let us suggest that a column °f later, .an ago would throw light on the death atee )l ace san serve to distinguish from unhealthy piaci. s• ) f sought . for health and prolonging life. at ion Wight has the lowest death rate in comp et ie for . all its other rates of the very highest. jf any live too fast there it is in the way of Drydo 6 g parson, but the abstinence is not indeed alrme.lt a 'let Th, 3 1 sl e . but very much of a necessity, and to this, P Ps' e the standard of health is referrible. No o tie sit too long at table, and the tough meats a nd s tri n t t i y . fowls make a case of repletion an utter iinf° allay. We can imagine nothing more advise, for the high liver than - a course of the Isle „. Wight. It will fine him down better than ant training, and lighten in person not less than 12 pocket, which is saying much indeed. THE " LONDON REVIEW" ON THE CLOSE OF DANISH WAIL—We have now before us the official text of the preliminaries of peace con eluded between Austria and Prussia o n tits o ne hand and Denmark on the other. This adds little to the information we had previously rece ived thfo u q :h the medium of the telegraph. But undoubtedly teef details do not in any degree soften the harsh e" the substantial terms which have been exacted Jr. ta the weaker . and defeated Power. The arrangeroeii,t b . 37 which Denmark surrenders portions ofd utlanc! oin• in exchange for a so-called equivalent served of Schleswig, is more disadvantageous to She Northern Power than we bad hoped might P r n o r to be the case. Nor can there be any sa." opinion . as to the determination which Austria Prussia have . shown to exact the full pound of fies e ; from their victim, by stipulating that whate v , e . l troops they may choose to retain in Jutland, tin i; i3 the signature of the final treaty of peace, fed . and lodged at the expense of that unhappy P r • 'mice. It would only have been a little decent after taking 89 mucn territory, they had o hovil 0 16 slight . amount of generosity in the matter of potte u tc ; shillings, and pence. But magnanimity seemly,. b e a virtue unknown at Berlin and Vienns• t h e Gerll3 o -._ ing robbed their enemy of his estate, Powers are not satisfied until they have picked IT pocket also. But it is no use to dwell upon th... 5 matter.. All is over so far as Denmark is concerned.; The . interesting question remains as to them rder which the spoils are to be appropriated. It is clew enough from . the miserably abortive meeting held• few . days since at Kiel, that Prussia is already 9. ing to set on foot in Schleswig-Holstein move, ment . for . the annexation of the Duchies to het the dominions. But it is not surprising to fiod tha t people of these provinces are by no means by an ardent desire for such an arrangera erit %ilee . however, M. von Bismarck cannot obtain P„°P - nne support . h . eis just the man to do without it. un `: point it is understood that both he and the .Austri.aet statesmen have made up their minds —that the P. l O , shall have no voice in determining the destle ati dis of conquests which were made in its name. In the nary lite we should give a very hard nam o pro conduct of an agent who obtained possession of n 0 1Y perty on behalf of his principal and thee ca b e appropriated it to his own use. But it NW.' oasis absurd to cast in the teeth of Austria and Fr on penetrateif reproaches founded on a breach of that comili3O honesty which they discarded at a very early . st e r or of the recent transactions. We may take it for granted . that they will do what seems best for own interests, without regard to any considers fi e ld which are not supported by an army in the 11 11 1 ,7 the et pre That Bavaria, Hanover, Saxony, and- small States, which are now fretting, funii e g! P t i . testing, and threatening all kinds of motions°. f right Diet, will appeal to force in defence of to a voice in disposing of the plunder of Denfaa we do not for an instant believe. In spite of . s i eg iv3 ; talk and elaborate despatches their troops f r o wiln ta fore long be civilly or uncivill ejected eve i " w h a t Holstein, and then we may poyssibly be told. Or It Austria . and Prussia have decided upon" suit those Powers to conceal their priva te , a . 1 ,1 1 „ .6i 1 i t le ments for a time; and in that case We u e '; „,1 its doubt that Europe, which has aimed)" ° Tr ' a ticl farthe. r, on forbearance so far, will carry it a little inquiri es abstain from making any unpleasant their ma r _ • the subject. Nothing seems left for us but the ele i r e Our ,on ly cise of a rather inminious patience. consolation must be d that England has ( dread] ~d this . unhappy business lost as much in character an influence as she well can do. CAMBRIAN: The first half-yearly meeting of this company was held at the offices, Bridge-street, Westminster, on Saturday, Earl Vane in the chair. The report congratulated the shareholders upon the suc cess of their efforts in the last Session of Parliament, and upon the course of policy which had been pursued. It stated that the Oswestry and Newtown, Llanidloes and Newtown, Oswestry, Ellesmere, and Whitchurch, and Newtown and Machynileth railways, had been amalgamated under the title of the Cambrian Railways Company, and their agree ments with the London and North-Western Company had been sanctioned by Parliament. By those means the public interests would be better served. By the opening of the Aberystwith and Welsh Coast line the railway system was complete between Aberystwith and Lancashire and the manufacturing districts of the north on the ono hand and London and the south of England on the other. The Nid- Wales line would shortly be opened, by which they would have direct communication with South Wales and the north of England. In an act authorising the leasing of the Shrewsbury and Welshpool line to the North-Western, or to that company and the Great Western Company, the Cambrian Company'obtained the insertion of a clause pre venting anything being done prejudicially to their arrange ments with the North-Western Company. The CIIAIR3IAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said he was firmly of opinion that their railway would prove very profitable if properly managed, because there were ample means for developing and carrying on a large traffic, while their arrangement with the London and North- Western Railway Company would prove of great mutual advantage. Mr TooxiL seconded the motion, which vas carried, Captain Johns, Mr H. Gartside, Captain Pryce, and Mr D. Williams were then elected directors, The election of ether directors was adjourned to the 2d of September. The CHAIRMAN then proposed that a dividend at the rate of £5 15s per cent per annum be declared upon the ordinary capital, payable on the sth of September. Captain JOHNS seconded the motion, and it was carried, Mr G. Lewis was appointed secretary, and the meeting was adjourned to the 2d of September, SALISBURY AND YEOVIL. The report of the directors states that the gross earnings for the half-year were £27,465, and for the corresponding half of 1863 £24,208, showing an increase of £3,207. Thu traffic for the year ending the 30th of June last was equal to £2Bl per mile per week, or £59,288, for the year ending the 30th of June, 1863, was £26 per mile per week,or £54,012, showing an increasas cf £2 lOs per mile per week, or £5,246. After deducting 'working expenses. Government duty, interest, and all other charges, a balance remained at £10,199, to which was added £2,358 from the preceding half year, making an available sum of £12,557, out of which the directors recommended the payment of a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent per annum on the preference shares, and at the rate of 4i per cent per annum on the ordinary shares, leaving a balence of £1,746. The second line of rails be tween Bradford Abbas junction and Yeovil was opened for public traffic in May last, and the doubling of the entire re maining portion of the line would now be actively proceeded with. The bill empowereing the company to acquire addi tional lands and to raise further capital received the Royal assent on the 23d of June. It was proposed to make the dividend warrants payable on the 22d inst. The capital account showed that £932,733 had been authorised, of which £656,372 had been raised, leaving £276,361 to be raised, The expenditure to the 30th of June amounted to £663,947, leaving a balance of £7,559. ALFORD AND MABLETHORFE. A meeting has been held at Alford in support of this pro ject, Of £60,000 required for the execution of the works only £lO,OOO is solicited in the neighbourhood. The lino, it carried out, will open the coast of Sutton, Mablethorpe, S:c., to the pleasure seekers of the Midland district. GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN OF IRELAND. The report of the directors states that the traffic of the line for the past half year was in excess of the preceding corresponding half years, but until an improvement took place in the state of Ireland no great increase in the traffic could be expected. The directors recommended tho pay tuent of dividends at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the preference capital, 3.116 per cent. per annum upon the £113,350 ordinary capital held by the Midland Great Wes tern Railway Company, and £3 ler cent. per annum upon the other portion of the ordinary share capital of the com pany, less income tax. The committees of the two Houses of Parliament, notwithstanding a most determined opposi tion on the part of the Midland Great Western Railway Board, had accorded to this company the right of passing over the Shannon at Athlone by means of the Midland Railway —a privilege which secured far ever the indepen dence and prosperity of the Great Northern and Western Railway. Parliament had further granted to the company tree access to the Great Southern and Western station at Athlone ; such direct communication with that company's system could not fail largely to increase the traffic of the company's line. The directors proposed giving effect to the monetary clauses of the two bills before reerred to. with the view of discharging existing liabilities on the line to Castlebar, and of carrying out the Westport and Ballina Extensions. The capital account showed that £187,492 had been expended, leaving a balance of £8,023. VALE OF NEATH. The report of the directors stated that, comparing the re ceipts and expenses of June, 1864, with those of Debember, 1863, the accounts showed an increase of £8,670 in the re ceipts and £4,036 in the expenses. The permanent junc tion with the Great Western Railway at Aberdare was com pleted, so far as this company was concerned, in December last. Zhe Great Western Company, however, only com menced by means of a temporary junction between the two lines, the working of through goods traffic on the 18th of April last, and notwithstandin g the most urgent demands by the directors, and promises repeatedly made by the Great Western, the junction for passenger traffic had not yet been completed. This was a great hardship upon the company, inasmuch as it not only leaves to a great extent unproductive the large amount of capital expended upon the works, but deprives them of the benefits which they had fairly anticipated from the larger passenger traffic that would have arisen on the opening of the new route. Upon the completion of the narrow gauge by this company they became entitled to certain payments from the Great 'West ern Company, which, in accordance with the terms of the agreement, had been referred to Mr T. E. Harrison, but until that gentleman has given his award the directors were unable to take credit for the actual amount. They had, however, carried £1,500 to credit of revenue. The available balance for dividend on the ordinary stock, after providing for interest, preferential and other charges, and placing £l,OOO to the credit of a reserve fund, was £15,869. This sum would admit of a dividend of 4gper cent. per annum, leaving a balance of £7OO for the next half-year, and the directors recommended the declaration of that di vide ad accordingly. The laying down of a third rail on the main line between Hirwain and Merthyr had been completed, and rapid progress was now being made with the Dare and Amman branches. The directors had en tered into a traffic agreement with the London:and North- Western Railway Company, and had purchased the Aber dare Valley Railway for a payment of 7/ per cont. per annum on their share capital of £12,000. The capital account showed that £1,464,559 had been ex. pended. The revenue account for the half-year showed that £71,220 had been received, and £33750 expended. THT SUTHERLAND MINISTER AND MR. JOHN BRIGHT.—Somo years ago Mr. Bright was going to a certain town on the Sutherland coast. Whil e th e coach was going through a certain pariah, the worthy minister thereof mounted and sat beside John Bright. They began to discuss politics. After a while the minister said, with a twang and dialect we cannot copy, " I'll tell you what it is, we'll never have peace until that blackguard, John Bright, be hanged. He is trying to Americanise our institutions, and do away entirely with the glorious consti tution of Great Britain." " Oh," says the M.P., "you would not surely hang him." " Hang him," replies the minister, "I would just hang himself as high as the tree. The blackguard Cobden is bad, but he's 10 degrees worse. Oh, he should be burnt, burnt I" In something of the same strain the conversation went on all the way. After service he was complimented by the clergyman for whom he officiated on the fine audience ho had, " and among the rest you had Mr Bright, M.P. for Birmingham." " Where did he sit ?" says the minister. He was told where the stout M.P. sat. "O Lord," he exclaimed, "what have I done ? He came down on the coach with me, and I called him a blackguard, and said ho should be burned; -Elgin Courant. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.— Hearty and Healthy—The experience of thousands, both at home and abroad, has amply demonstrated the power pos. 'teased by these healing and purifying remedies of removing cutaneous eruptions, repairing ulcerations, and relieving fistulas and abscesses. These hidden evils frequently rob life of every comfort through the reluctance of the sufferer to expose his infirmity. Hollowsy's ointment supersedes such dreaded publicity by placing within the reach of all plain instructions for curing themselves without any dan ger, and witnout the necessity of mentioning their malady to anyone. The ointment and pills will likewise cure bad legs, scabby rashes, and those blemishes which arise from the abuee of mercury, and from the use of other deleterious drugs, COUNTRY MARKETS. GRANTHAM—SATURDAY. t e hig Upon the whole wheat will be a fair average crop fri et - d. quarter. Barley will turn out better than wa s elpe —Old white wheat,:46B to 488 ; red, 378 to 42 s per 366,„tv.; new white, 44s to 48s ; red, 39s to 445. I\lalting —s to —s per qr ; grinding, 27s to 308 ; oats , old, 20s-' 265; now, 19s to24s; beans, 34s to 40s; peas, 31 5.t0 378. LEICE STER—SATunnAY. A fair show of wheat, and prices fully is to 2s per qr oper last week's rates. Scarcely any barley showing, at about late rates. Oats sold readily. Beans scarce, but ti 0 ,1 3; —Old white wheat, 46s to 50s ; red, 43s to 46d per ,3, , 1 ' stone. New white, 44s to 52s per 36 stone. Malting barley new, 32s to 34s per qr.; grinding, 28s to 30s; old 006; 2ls to 295 ; new oats, 21s to 23s per 24 stone. De's old, 408 to 44s per 38 stone ; flour, 345 to 39 5 . per 20 stone. NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY. A middling show of wheat, which met a firm sale, an d late prices were fully supported. Barley li m ited 'llP ply, and trade inactive, at late prices. Oats met a tolerablY goo 4 trade, at full prices. Beans in •favour of sellers* . —White wheat, from 45s to bls'; red wheat , 40e to 4 O a ts Barley—malting, 30s to 37s • grinding, 23s to 3 0 s. , old, at 2Gs to 30s Od; new, '2os to 265. B eans sold a t 401 to 43s . per qr. ; new, 35s to 3sB. Flour, fine, 32s to 3Gs ; super, 3 Ss to 40s :p er 20 stone. NORWICH—SATuRDAY. There was a thin attendance aga in to-day, with only 6 limited supply of wheat, and last week's prices must b° quoted. White wheat. 45s to 463 Red wheat........ 41s to 42 6 Malting barley ...37s to 3 0s L 4„ Chevalier barley...33s to 3 46 d 0..... 29s o 30s I Oats.. ........... 243 to 26 4 Distilling Flour, 28s Od to t —s Od per sack front the ....... YORK—SATtinDAY. A fair supply of wheat on offer from the farmers thie morning, and the attendance was moderate. Business watt still inactive, and the prices of last week were not in all instances made. Barley scarce, and commanded Cully late rates. Beans wero in limited show, with a fair demand. Wheat, red ...... .39s to 44s Oats.... ........ 20s to 2,,P White do ......... . 45 s to 48s Beans ........... 358 to SS ; Barley ........... . 24s to 28a Peas ........ r.. ....fl our, 319 —s toga Malt, 58s to GOs per qr.; rye, 30s per q; to 31s per sack. __.--.....n.............• Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Auo 18 Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. ..... via Marseilles ......... Aug. 1 -.• rail and Cape Verde, by British packet........ Sept. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Aug, Chma, Penang, and Singapore , via Southarnp ug. ton. Aug via Marseilles ....A 12. Falkland 151and5...... ................ ,8 Gibraltar, via Southampton .............. Aug. . 1. , i . India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.. Aug' i. 2. via Blarseilles.....Aug. ~ - India (Bombay), via Southampton ............ Mg' 7, ° 0 : via Marseilles ................ Au A Portugal.... Sept. -2 - . ~,,,. Malta, _Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Aug' a via Marseilles Aug ~, Newfoundland ......................... Aug. li' Oporto and Vigo .. . .............. . 17. U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Aug' by U.S. packet.. • • A 9. by Canadian packet -Aug. ' All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, I A u g. 1 3 . California. and British Colu mbia. ........... CRYSTAL PALACE.--HALF-CROWN DAY, SATI:7II,' 1 )A7.—Admission s on payment, ,1 94 ; ditto by sev ers tickets, 2,448. Total visitors, 3,642. Births. DUCKWORTIL—On the 12th inst., at Clevelands, the wife of Wm. Duckworth, iteq., of a daughte. llorr4.—On the 9th inst., at Tenby, South W ales, the wife of Captain Charles Webley Hope, Royal NAVY! of a SOLI. MnLvILLE.—On the 11th inst , at Branston Rectory, Lin coin, the Hon. Mrs. A. S. Leslie Melville, of a daughter. Dawlisb, PAL)tElt.—On the 12th inst., at Bruntsfield House, Finch' ley-road, Mrs. Samuel Palmer, of a daughter. Marriages. O BRuNTON ,--K.NTGUT.—On the 10th ins F: t. at St, L eoIT Church, Sr. Leonard's -on-Sea, W. Brunto C.E., to Fanny Wright, widow of the late R. G. linighro Esq., C.E. Y—BOYDEN.On the 9 th inst. , at S aint George's, PALE Hanover-square, C ap tain R. S. Paley, 12th Lanc ers,eo t° of the late Thomas Paley, Es - . barrister -at - l og, Anne, only daughter of Writ. Boyden, Esq., Eceleston' square. Deaths. ArrnEnr.E.—On the 11th inst., at the VicarageWhisseri cline, Rutland, the Rev. Henry Applebeo, 51. ATNINSON.—On the 12th inst., at Lewisham- r oad, N e ` " cross, Mr. Joseph E. Atkinson, aged 49. CASON.—On the 12th inst., at Charlton Villa, Blackheath' Mrs. Jane Cason, aged 77. DILKE.—On the 10th inst., at Mice Holt, near Farnham' Charles Wentwoth Dilke, ged 7. HAnnin.—On the ' 11th inpt., a at W SC. Hardie , Bsq., .11to of 6, Wood-street,tCheapside, aged 54. HILL.—On the 9th inst., at Bath, Commander Sala R.N., aged 74. RAYNEJI.—On the 11th inst., at his residence, in Blff Cambs., Henry Rayner, Esq., aged 79. w iden' SYDNEY.—On the 11th inst., at The Bourne , near Ma .I.ti head, Sarah Ann, Lady Sydney, wife a S i r William " Sydney, :IgeLl OS. Prblished by RE'CS of Nu. 12, s trand, Printer, at TUE SUN Wilco No. 11 2• 1 in the Precinct ot the Savoy,•in tUe C` until 0 1 41"'14X.--)lontl4y, Angtlat 15,1064. 1